The money raised on Twitter to buy flowers for Dr Ashley Bloomfield has instead been donated to charity and used to buy four personal alarms for people who need them.
The Aunties, one of the two charities who received the money, has announced it used the $1284 it received to purchase four Safelet personal alarms.
The money was raised following the controversy between Health Minister David Clark and director general of health Bloomfield.
When Clark was criticised by some and seen to have "thrown Bloomfield under the bus" over the two positive cases of Covid-19 that were allowed to leave isolation early and travel to Wellington, New Zealanders banded together to defend Bloomfield.
In an effort to show Bloomfield that they did not stand with Clark on his views, a fundraiser was set up on Twitter last week to send "blooms for Bloomfield".
It all started when a Kiwi wanted to do something nice for Bloomfield and send him some flowers.
The Twitter user shared her bank details and her plan on Twitter this morning and invited others to chip in, if they felt like it.
More than $1800 was raised, in less than six hours, with the intention of sending Bloomfield some flowers and cupcakes as a thank you for the work he has been doing.
Afterwards, and following comments from Bloomfield, it was decided the money would instead go to charity, namely The Aunties and Shakti.